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DEER SEASON, DONE RIGHT.

Before you head into the whitetail woods, browse our extensive collection of deer hunting videos and articles. For beginners and experts alike. From thrilling hunts to helpful hints, there’s always something to learn from watching the country’s top whitetail hunters ply their craft — and whole a lot to enjoy.

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How We Manage Our Deer Herd to Produce Great Hunter Success

As I’ve mentioned earlier, to provide the best late season hunting, you have to manage the number of hunters you have on the property. This relates to the amount of hunting pressure that you put on your deer. You have to constantly monitor your deer herd and make management decisions based on a 4-year plan. At Canadian River Hilton Hunting Lodge, we manage our deer herd to produce 4-1/2-year old bucks.

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Late Season Deer Hunting - Scout Hard and Hunt Smart

Gun season starts the Saturday before Thanksgiving and runs for 16 days consecutively. Usually, this includes three weekends. So, our late season hunts are all archery hunts. We've been hunting this same 30,000 acres for 28 years. I know the property and the deer movement patterns almost as well as the deer do. I’ve identified the trails they use to get to the food sources. These are some of the reasons that our bowhunters are

Deer, How-To, Mossy Oak

DEER THUG Justin Eakins: Deer Management Secrets

This week Justin Eakins, one of the Mossy Oak DEER THUGS, tells us how he manages and hunts deer on 30,000 acres at the end of the season on his land at his Canadian River Hilton Hunting Lodge in Crawford, Oklahoma, and how he grows a crop of bucks that he doesn’t plan to harvest for 4 years. Eakins has been a deer hunter for over 30 years.

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Chris Kirby on How to Bow Hunt Late Season Bucks

Wild apple trees are my favorite food source to hunt over, because apples fall on top of the snow, they're very tasty for the deer to eat, and we can purchase a wide variety of apple trees from the Mossy Oak Nativ Nurseries. Upstate New York has a lot of wild apples for us to hunt over. However, if you live in an area where you don’t have wild apples, check with the folks at

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Chris Kirby: Push Deer - Don’t Drive Them

We always maintain a thick cover sanctuary on each of the farms we hunt. These thick cover areas are where we've gotten trail camera pictures of deer or find big tracks leading into thick cover. Every one of our club members has agreed not to go into those sanctuaries except to remove a deer and not to hunt close to these sanctuaries. We have the understanding that we will be able to hunt the sanctuaries

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Chris Kirby on Late Season Deer Talk

Deer are vocal all year long. Primarily, I’ll use a Deer Thugs Brawler that I carry with me from the beginning of bow season until the last day of hunting season. In the late season, I'm not going to call aggressively or loudly. I'm just going to give contact calls – low sounding and infrequent - one or two note grunts. Once again remember that just because the main rut is over, does not mean

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Chris Kirby Tells Where to Hunt For Mature Bucks During the Late Season

In the late season, I believe your ability to take older-age-class bucks totally depends on planting the right crops during the late spring and early fall in designated food plots. When you're planting food plots, most people think about planting crops that they can hunt over in the early season. They rarely consider planting late season food plots. But here’s why you should consider planting last season food plots.

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How To Hunt the Late Season

Chris Kirby has been wearing Mossy Oak most of his life and is the president of Quaker Boy Calls. Through partnering with Mossy Oak, he produces the Deer Thugs line of deer calls. Although Kirby lives in Orchard Park, New York, he hunts all over the country and helps manage several small farms in his area - some as small as 25 acres and others as large as 200 acres. Kirby says, “You definitely can

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When a Big Buck Is Close, Watch His Eyes

The buck was returning from feeding and was going to his bed. Before this buck came out of that field where he could see the entire field, he studied the timber with his eyes and into the timber where his vision would be limited. We were 20 yards inside the timber. This buck was very cautious. He looked right up in the tree at me and my cameraman two or three different times. I whispered

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Joe Shults Harvested a 206-5/8 Buck Wearing Mossy Oak

Mossy Oak camouflage helped me take the biggest deer I'd ever taken. I was hunting in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, during the second rut. A standing soybean field was on one side of a small strip of woods 50-yards wide, and on the other side of the woods was a thick cover bedding area. We thought that the soybean field was probably the only food source still available for the deer during the late season. We

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How and When Camouflage Helps

On October 1, 1993, I decided to open my sporting-goods store, Joe’s Sporting Goods. I sold Mossy Oak exclusively in my store, because the other brands of camo I had purchased weren’t selling. Today I still have the only sporting-goods store that sells hunting equipment in my town.

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Reasons To Feed Late Season Whitetails

Hunters more than anybody realize how tough the late winter can be for whitetails. Deer in the upper Midwest, northern states, and Canada, can have massive amounts of snowfall to try and navigate through and are often forced to exert a lot of energy to find whatever food is available. Reliable food sources are few and far between and many deer consume a lot of low quality, hard to digest, woody brush in the late

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Why I Leave Home To Hunt Whitetails

Today, I've hunted every province in Canada except British Columbia. I also hunt Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and Colorado. I've taken elk, mule deer, whitetails, black bears and more wild hogs than I can count. I think about the only big game animal in North America that I haven’t hunted is the Shiras moose.

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Food Plots and Feeders

Insufficient nutrition levels can lead to weight loss, poor conception rates, lower fawn recruitment, and increased vulnerability to disease…and where it counts too many gamekeepers - poor antler development and increased mortality rates. In areas where it is legal, it is wise to supplement your herd’s diet with a quality protein feed.

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Hunting Hulk Hogan

I had been in the woods four hours and was still hunting. Two turkeys came by and had scared me out of my wits. Two does and a small four point buck had also already crossed my path and the squirrels were starting to get on my nerves. Everyone else that was hunting in the immediate area had already shot and the pressure was on.

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